Rowland Mosbergen

@rowlandm@disabled.social
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion advocate and writer.

Working in medical research as a Research Software Engineer.

#RSE #ResearchSoftware

#Melbourne

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Diversity
Equity
Inclusion
Research software

Do not stan for a billionaire. You will still suffer, they won't notice, and worse, innocent people will confuse your loyalty for approval to do the same.

All billionaires and stockholders profit off of the backs of others. If you play their game, you will eventually do the same. Don't join them if you want things to change.

420 - Just a Cat: A note on transphobia in sport… - Toot.Cat

A note on transphobia in sports and why cis women HAVE to voice their support for trans women now: Since the transphobia madness became a thing in social media, many videos showing top cis women athletes with toned bodies and/or short hair have been inundated with comments attacking them by call...

https://toot.cat/@catzilla/110871124370242252

Found via nottheonlyone.org as one of 10,200+ #DEI #Diversity, #Equity and #Inclusion items.

Just a Cat (@catzilla@toot.cat)

A note on transphobia in sports and why cis women HAVE to voice their support for trans women now: Since the transphobia madness became a thing in social media, many videos showing top cis women athletes with toned bodies and/or short hair have been inundated with comments attacking them by calling them transphobic slurs. These are cis women. They are just strong and wear short hair. There was also an incident here in Canada with a literal child participating in group sports and a random guy demanded her parent to prove the girl was not a boy. Don’t let these laws fool you - their intention is not to protect women in sports. Their intention is to put women “back in their place”, force them to have s certain type of “feminine look” and eventually shut down certain women sports for being too masculine. These laws hurt ALL women. All of us. Cis and trans, athletes or not.

Toot.Cat

6963 - Facial Recognition Tech Used To Jail Black Man For Louisiana Theft - He's Never Been To Louisiana

A Georgia man spent almost a week in jail after Louisiana police wrongly identified him as a fugitive using facial recognition software.

https://peopleofcolorintech.com/articles/facial-recognition-tech-used-to-jail-black-man-for-louisiana-theft-hes-never-been-to-louisiana/

Found via nottheonlyone.org as one of 10,200+ #DEI #Diversity, #Equity and #Inclusion items.

Facial Recognition Tech Used To Jail Black Man For Louisiana Theft - He's Never Been To Louisiana

A Georgia man spent almost a week in jail after Louisiana police wrongly identified him as a fugitive using facial recognition software.

POCIT. Telling the stories and thoughts of the underrepresented in tech.

I'm glad the LNP didn't get in.

I'm glad Dutton lost his seat.

I'm glad the Clive Palmer Tump party got less votes.

I'm scared One Nation got more votes.

I'm sad that we didn't get a minority government.

Not much is going to change, I think we will still go down the same route as the US, just much slower.

#AusPol

This is also by fear that you abort diagnosis and push people to ill-being and suicide.

Autism evaluations are being canceled over fears about a national registry https://www.statnews.com/2025/05/01/autism-registry-fears-hurt-diagnosis-screening-parents-cancel-autism-evaluations/

> “Did we just screw up our child’s life? In seeking to help him, did I just paint a giant target on his back?”

Fight the state. Fight the corporations. Fight the ableism. Learn about neurodiversity.

#autism #eugenics #ableism #neurodivergent #neurodiversity #neurodiverse #neuroa

Autism evaluations are being canceled over fears about a national registry

Fears of landing on a federal list prompts parents, and adults, to cancel autism screening evaluations.

STAT
get the tissues ready. It's Antony Greens final performance. End of an era 
Yes the uber eats democracy sausage thing is an abomination, but personally I would prefer if we could aim the ire at uber eats itself, and not take aim at the people ordering them - it's not like there's an alternative, community-built, ethically-delivered alternative for folks who cannot get out of the house, and the more you guys all hype up the democracy sausage, the more likely it gets that disabled folk stuck at home will feel left out and want a dem sausage too, surely?

5/ Via Harry Litman:

When an opinion begins" No American President has ever before issued executive orders like the one at issue in this lawsuit ," you know it's going to be bad for the administration.

4/ Via Emptywheel:

Howell notes that Trump fucked up his most recent claim about Perkins Coie; it is suing him, not vice versa.

🤣

3/ Via Kyle Cheney:

Howell drips with disdain for the firms who capitulated to the White House and says of those who resisted "will be the models lauded when this period of American history is written."

Via Anna Bower:

102 pages of straight fire from Judge Beryl Howell

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The President's "skinny" budget request was released today, and in it NASA gets absolutely decimated. Science is hit with at least $3.426 billion in cuts — less than the leaked passback amount but not by much. This is the largest cut to NASA's budget in American history and if enacted would lead to a surrender of U.S. deep space exploration for generations if enacted. Likewise, NSF stands to be similarly hollowed out at -$3.479 billion for general research and education.

This budget does not make America great. It does exactly the opposite.

When Cornell physicist Robert R. Wilson’s was asked by a Congressional committee member “how a multimillion-dollar particle accelerator improved the security of the country”, Wilson replied "It has only to do with the respect with which we regard one another…. It has nothing to do directly with defending our country except to make it worth defending."

Congress should, and in fact must, reject the President's proposal.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Fiscal-Year-2026-Discretionary-Budget-Request.pdf

#Science #UnitedStates #StandUpForScience

@JohnBarentine
So, how is the Greater Fool market (my new name for the stock market) responding to this?
@bjb The markets say "meh". All major indices are up on the day with a little less than a half-hour of trading left.

@JohnBarentine

and the military budget tops a trillion dollars

What are they preparing for?

@Sfwmson @JohnBarentine civil war.

Neofeudalist Billionaires
vs.
Wageworkers and every marginalized person